Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 26, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 April 1906 — Page 3

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for The Term of His Natural Life By MARCUS CUARICE

Cn rPTER X. Continred.) The red lip parted, and the blue eyes, brighter than ever. stareJ racantly around. The sound of her father's voice seemed to hare roused her, for she began to speak a . little prayer: "God bless papa and mamma, and God bless all on board this ship. God bless me. and make me good girl, for Jesus Christ's sake, our Lord. Amen." The sound of the unconscious child's simple prayer had something awesome ir it, and John Vickers, -who not ten minutes before would have sealed his own death warrant unhesitatingly to preserve the safety of the vessel, felt his eyes fill with unwonted tears. The contrast was curious. Fruni out the midst of that desolate ocean in a fever-smit-tea prison ship. leagues from land, surrounded by ruffians, thi eves and marderers the baby voice of an innocent child called confidently on heaven. Two hours afterward as the Malabar, escaped from the peril which had menaced her, plunged cheerily through the rippling water the mutineers, by their spokesman, Mr. James Vetch, confessed: "They were very sorry, and hoped that their breach of discipline would be forgiven. It Mas the fear of the typhus which had driven them to it. They had no accomplices either in the prison or ont of it, but they felt It but right to say that the man who tid planned the mutiny was Ruf us Dawes." The malignant cripple had guessed from 'whom the information which had led to the failure of the plot had been derived, and this was his characteristic revenge, Extracted from the Ilobart Town Courier: j - "The examination of the prisoners who were concerned in the attempt upon the Malabar was concluded" on Tuesday last. The four ringleaders, Dawes, Gabbett. Vetch and Sanders, were condemned to death; but we understand that, by the clemency of his excellency the governor, their sentence has been commuted to six years at the penal settlement of Maequarie Harbor." CHAPTER XI. The southeast coast of Van Diemen's Land resembles a biscuit at which rats have been nibbling. Eaten away by the continual anion of the ocean which, pouring round by east .ini west, has divided the peninsula froahe mainland .f tbf Australasian continent, the shore line iü broken and ragged. From the sentinel solitude" of the Iron Pot to the smiling ban is of New Norfolk, the river winds ia a sluccession of reaches, narrowing to a deep channel cleft between rugged and towering cliffs. The climate of Van Diemen's Land is one of the loveliest in the world. Lannceston is warm, sheltered and moist; and Hobart Town, protected by Bruny Island and its archipelago of D'Encastreaux Channel and Storm Bay from the vf 'Ience of the southern breakers, preserves the mean temperature of Smyrna; while the district between these two towns spreads in a succession of beautiful valleys, through which glide clear and sparkling streams. But on the western coast, from the steeple rocks of Cape Grim to the scrub encircled barrenness of Sandy Cape, and the frowning entrance to Maequarie Harbor, the nature of the country entirely changes. Along that iron boumi shore, all is bleak and cheerless. : Upon that dreary beach the rollers of the soatnern sea complete their circuit of t-e globe, and the storm , that has devastated the cape, and united in its "eastern course with the icy blasts which sweep northward from the unknown terrors of the southern pole, crashes Unchecked upon the Huoa pine forests, and lashes with lain the grira front of Mount Direction. Furious gales "and sudden tempests affright the natives of the coast. Navigation is dangerous, and the entrance to the "Hell's Cites' of Maequarie Harbor is only to be attempted in calm weather. "Hell's Gates," formed by a rocky point, which runs abruptly northward, almost touches, on its eastern side, a ' projecting arm of land which guards the entrance to King's river. In the middle of the gates is ' an inland, which, lying on a sandy bar ia the very jaws of the current, creates a double whirlpool. Impossible to pass ia the roughest weather. The headquarters of the settlement, were placed on an island not far from the mouth of this Inhospitable river, called Sarah Island. Sarah Island is long and low. The commandant's houre was built in the center, having the .ha plain's house and barracks between It and the jail. The jhospital was oa the west shore, and in :a line with it lay the two penitentiaries. Lines of lofty palisades ran round the 'settlement, giving it the appearance of ;a fortified town. These palisades were built for the purpose of warding off the !terrific blasts of wind, which, shrieking through the -k-ng and narrow bay as through the keyhole of a door, had in former time3 torn off roofs, and leveled boat sheds. The little town was set, as it were, in defiance, of nature, at the very extreme of civilization, and its inhabitants maintained perpettfal warfare with the winds and waves. , Bat the jail of Sarah Island was not the only prison ia this desolate region. At a little distance from the mainland is a rock, over the rude side of which the waves dash in rough weather. On an evenrog in December, as the sun was sinking behind the tree tops oa the left side of the harbor, the figure of a man appeared on th. top of this rock. He was clad in the coarse garb of a convice, and wore round his ankles two iron rings, connected by a short and heavy chain. To the middle of this chain a leathern strap was attached, " which, splitting in the form of a T, buckled round his waist, and pulled the chain high enough to prevent him from stumbling over it as he walked. His head was bffre, and his coarse, blue striped 'shirt, open at the throat, displayed aa embrowned and muscular neck. Emerging from out a sort of cell, or den, contrived by nature or art In the side oi the cliff, he threw on a scanty fire, which burned between two hollowed rocks, a small log of pine wood; and then, returning to his cave, and bringing fron it an Iron pot which contained water, be scooped with his toil hardened hands a resting place for it in tha ashes, and placed it on the ''embers. It wsa evident that the cave was at once his Ktorehouse and larder, and that the twe hollowed rocks formed his kitchen. Haiing thns made preparations for supper, he ascended a pathway which led to the highest point of the rock. His fetters compelled hira to take short steps, and, as he walked, he winced as though the iron bit him. A handkerchief oi strip of cloth ws.s twisted round his left ankle, oa which the circlet had chafed a sore. Painfully and slowly he gained his destination, and, flinging himself on the ground, gazed around him. A brig was being towed up the harbor by two convict-manned boats. The sight of this brig seemed to rous in the mind of the solitary of the rock a strain of reflection, for, sinking his chin upon his hand, he fixed bis eyes on the incoming vessel, and immersed himself ia moody thought. The ship, anchored, the boats detached themselves from her sides, the sun sunk, and the bay was plunged in gloom. Lights began to twinkle along the shore of the settlement The little fire died, and the water ia tha iron pot grew cold; yet the watch

er on the rock did not stir. With his eyes staring into the gloom, and fixed steadily on the vessel, he lay along the barren c!iff of his. lonely prison as motionless as the rock on which he had stretched himself. This solitary man was Rufus Dawes In the house of Major Vickers, com mandant of Maequarie Harbor, there was, on this evening of December, unusual gayety. Lieut. Maurice Frere, late in command at Maria Island, had unexpectedly come down with news from headquarters. The Ladybird, government schooner, visited the settlement on ordinary occasions twice a year. To the convicts the arrival of the Ladybird meant arrival of new faces, Intelligence of old comrades, news of how the world from which they were exiled, was progressing. When the Ladybird arrived, the chained and toil-worn felons fe t that they were yet human, that the universe was not bounded . by the gloomy forests which surrounded their prison, but that there was a world beyond. To the convicts the Ladybird was towntalk, theater, stock quotations and latest telegrams. She was their newspaper, postofflce, the one v excitement of their dreary existence, the one link between their own misery and the happiness of th eir fellow creatures. To the commandant and the "freemen" this messenger from the outer life was scarcely less welcome. There was, not a man on the island who did not feel his heart grow heavier when her white sails disappeared behind .the shoulder of the hill. . On the present occasion business of more than ordinary importance had procured for Major Vickers this pleasurable excitement. It had been resolved by Gov. Arthur that the convict establishment should be broken up. A succession of murders and attempted escapes had called public attention to the place, and its distance from Ilobart Town rendeied it inconvenient and expensive. Arthur had fixed upon Tasman's peninsula as a future convict depot, and naming it Port Arthur, in honor of himself, had sent down Lieut. Maurice Frere with instructions for Vickers to convey the prisoners of Maequarie Harbor thither. Seven classes of 'criminals were established, when the new barracks for prisoners at Hobart Town were finished. The first class were allowed to sleep out of barracks, and to work for themselves on Saturday; the Second had only the last-named indulgence; the third were only allowed Saturday afternoon; the fourth and fifth were "refractory and disorderly characters to work in irons;" the sixth were "inen of the most degraded and incorrigible character to be worked in irons and kept' entirely, separate from the other prisoners;" while th seventh were tire refuse of this refuse the murderers, bandits and villains, whom nither chain nor lash could tame. They were regarded as socially dead, and shipped to Hell's Gates or Maria Island. Hell's Gates was the most dreaded of all these houses of bondage. The discipline at the place was so severe-, and the life so terrible, that prisoners would risk all to escape from it. In one year, of eighty-five deaths there, only thirty were from natural .causes; of the remaining dead, twenty-seven were drowned, eight killed accidentally, three shot by the soldiers, and twelve murdered by their comrades. Ia another year one hundred and sixtynine men out of one hundred and eightytwo were punished to the extent of two thousand lashes. During the ten years of its existence one hundred and twelve men escaped, oat of whom sixty-two only were found dead. .The prisoners killed themselves to avoid living any longer, and, if so fortunate as to penetrate the desert -of scrub, heath and swamp which liy between their prison and the settled districts, preferred death to recapture. Successfully, to transport the remnant of this desperate band of doubly convicted felons to Arthur's new prison was the mission of Maurice Frere. "Well. Mrs. Vickers," he said, as be took a cup of tea from the hands of that lady, "I suppose you won't be sorry to get away from this place, eh?" "No, indeed," says poor Mrs. Vickers, with the old girlishne.( shadowed by six years; "I shall be only too glad. A dreadful place! John's duties, however, are imperative. But the wind! My dear Mr. Frere, you've no idea of it; I wauted to send Sylvia to Ilobart Town, but John would not let her go." "By the way, how is Miss' Sylvia V asked Frere, with the patronizing air which men of his stamp adopt whea they sicak of children. "Not very well, I'm sorry to say," returned Vickers. "You see, it's lonely for her here.' There are no children of her own age, with the exception of the pilot's little girl, and she cannot associate with her. But I did not like to leave her .behind, and , endeavored to teach her myself." "Hum! There was a ha governess, or something, was there not?" said Frere, staring into his teacup. "That maid, yoQ know what was her name" "Miss Purfoy," said Mrs. Vickers, a little gravely. "Yes, poor thing; a sad story, Mr. Frere." - "Indeed! I left, you ' know, shortly after the trial of the mutineers, and never heard the 'full particulars."" He spoke carelessly, but he awaited the reply with keen curiosity. "A sad story T repeated Mrs. Vickers. "She was the wife of that wretched man. Rex, and came out as my maid ia order to be near him. She would never tell me her history, poor thing, though all through the dreadful accusations made by that horrid doctor, I begged her almost on my knees. You know how she nursed Sylvia and poor John. Really a most superior creatüre. I think she must have been a governess. Her conduct wis most exemplary, and during the six months we were in Hobart Town she taught little Sylvia a great deal. Of course she could not help her wretched husband, yon know. Could she?" "Certainly not!" said Frere, heartily. "I heard something about him, too. Got into some scrape, did he not?" "Miss Purfoy, or Mrs. Rex, as she really yrzs, thongh I don't suppose Rex Is her real name, either, came into a little ?vgacy from an old 'aunt in England and left -my service. Bhe took a little cottage on the New Town road, and Rex was assigned to her as her servant." "I see. The old dodge!" says Frere, flushing a little. "Well?" "Well, the wretched man tried to escape, and she helped him. lie was to get to Launceston, and so on board a vessel to Sydney; but they took the unhappy creature, and he was sent down here. She wa3 only fined, but it ruined her. You see, only a few people know of her relationship to Rex, and she was rather respected. Of course, when it became known, what with that dreadful trial and the horrible assertions of Dr. Pine you will not believe me, I know; there was something about that man I never liked she was quite left alone. She wanted me to bring, her down here to teach Sylvia, but John thought that it was only to be near her husband, and wouldn't allow it." ' "Of course it was," said Vickers, Ising. "Frere, we'll go on the veranda. She will never be satisfied until she gets that scoundrel free." "He's a bad lot, then?" says Frere, opening the glass window and leading th way to the sandy garden.

"Oh, a very bad lot." returned Vickers; "quiet and silent, but ready for any villainy. I count him one of the worst men we have. With the exception of one or two more, I think he is the worst." "Why don't you flog 'em?" says Frere. "I cut the hides off my fellows if they show any nonsense." . "Well." says Vickers, "I don't care about too much cat myself. Barton, woh was here before me, flogged tremendously, but I don't thingk it did any goed. They tried to . kill him several times. You remember those twelve fellows who were hanged? No! Ah, of course you were away." "What do you do with 'em?" "Oh, flog the worst, you know; but I don't floj more than a man a week as a rule, and never more than fifty lashes. They're getting quieter now. Then we iron, and dumb-ells, and maroon them." "Do what?" "Give them solitary confinement oa Grummet Island. When a man gets very bad, we clap him into a. boat with a week's provisions, and pull him over to Grummet. There are cells cut. in the rock, you see, and the fellow pulls up his commissariat after him, .and lives there by himself for a month or so. It tames them wonderfully." "Does it?" said Frere. "It's a capital notion. I wish I had a place of that sort at Maria." ' "I've a fellow there now," says Vickers, "Dawes. You remember him, of course the ringleader of the mutiny in the Malabar. A dreadful ruffian. He was the most violent the first year I was here. Barton used to flog a good deal, and Dawes had a childish dread of the cat. When t came, he'd made a sort of petition to be sent back to the settlement. , Said that he was innocent of the mutiny, and that the accusation against hisu was false." , 9 (To be Continued.)

RELIGION IN BUFFALO HUMP. Where Pluck of Preacher Won Re pect and Devotion. All through' the winter of 1001 a straggling procession of fortune seekers made lis way through the rougn mountains of central Idaho, says the World's Work, bound for Buffalo Hump. The cold was Intense, the traveling difficult, the suffering great. Everything was expensive; shovci3 sold for $12, chickens for $5 and i wages were .as high as $15 a day. Horse feed was $1 a meal, and whisky r0 cents a drink. A teamster, who owned a horse that could wear snowshoes made $1,500 in four months oy hiring him out. A young Episcopal clergyman thought the Buffalo Hump mines a good place for missionary work. There was no such thing in camp as Sunday. The miners were too busy for that, and gambling and drinking were the only forms of recreation. There was, therefore, great excitement over the expected arrival of :i "tenderfoot-shy pilot;" some were opposed, some fere pleased, and nil were excited, J'or anything "new" wui a relief to Buffalo Hump. For the first time religion became a topic of conversation. When within ,slxty miles of' the mines he was accosted by a wellwisher. He told him that the snow was too deep to ride farther, and the well-wisher consented to buy his horse for $5, simply as a favor. He Impressed upon the young preacher the Import uice . of having a full knapsack, and advised him not to eat until he had gone far on his Journey. Thanking him for his kind advice, the missionary courageously set out to tramp through sixty miles of snow, with only a blazed trail to guide hin, By 10 o'clock be was tired and hun gry, by 3 o'clock he was famished and exhausted, and by C o'clock he dropped In his tracks. With eager fingers he untied the knapsack to find In it a rock I The good samaritan had relieved him of his lunch and be had "packed". a useless, heavy burden fpr al! those dreary miles! But he had come to preach and not to cry and his great good nature, his earnestness and his "gameness" deeply impressed the mining camp and .a wonderful change had taken place. Sunday labor was abandoned and services were held every morning. Everything was a success bet 1e singing, and that was a dead failure. 'TC we only had an orran," was the cry. The "sky pilot" said that they should have one. Returning through the silent woods to Lewlston he purchased an organ and brought it into camp on horseback. That was a day of great rejoicing In Buffalo Hump). The only man who could play became so elated that he drank too mach whisky and the service was postponed until evening, when it proved a great success. Men who had not been to church for twenty years came to that first service. A furious dog fight took place outside the log chapel during the sermon, but not a man left his seat Christianity had come to stay at Buf falo flump. Aa a Pleture Is. "Yes," said Mr. Goodiey, "she made quite an impression upon me; reminds me of an old-fashioned picture "Ah!" lntrrupted Miss Chellus, "you noticed it, then?" "Noticed what?" "That she's painted." Philadelphia Press. . Ilia Garret Fire. Tall Artist DeSmears was telling me that he was using more charcoal than ever these days. Is he selling many charcoal drawings? Short Artist He is not selling any. He has bought a charcoal btove to keep him warm. 31 ere Thought. , New Clerk I think I understand the business pretty well now. Employer Yes? Keep at it four or five years. Perhaps you'll understand it then as well as you think you do now. Philadelphia Ledger. : Straining a Kl. Eva Did you ever kiss a girl through her veil? ' Dick Yes and got quite an "Impression. Eva Of the girl? Dick No, of the veil. What Did lie Mrnnt "What makes you look so worried?" "I can never get a dress suit to fit me. "Perhaps you don't get there early enough." Cleveland Leader. Itubasano, a full-blooded Kaffir, a savage until his eighteenth year, is to-day a poet, pastor, patriot and a scholar who has mastered English, Greek, Latin and Hebrew and is now engaged in London in the first authentic translation of the Bible into his native tongue. A concrete chimney completed recently for a Tacoma smelter is S07 feet in height and Is said to be the lilgheat in the world of Its kind.

Prosrreaa of Education for Women. Popular Interest In any question may be judged with fair accuracy by the amount of printed discussion of it Even those who have followed intelligently the history of the education of women may well be surprised at the story told by two pamphlets published by the Boston Tublic Library. They bear the modest title of "Contributions Toward a Bibliography of the Higher Education of. Women." One was published in 1897 and the other last year. They contain eighty-eight closely printed pages, filled with the bare titles of books . and articles" relating to feminine education. The change In. the point of view of the writers from decade to decade is most significant In 1808 the Christian Observer was considering "In What Degree May Female Talent Be Beneficially Cultivated?" and "The Effects of Female Improvement on Domestic Happiness." In 1SGS the Westminster Keview published an article on "The Suppressed Sex," and in 18G7 th Pall Mall Gazette one on "Latin fcr Ladles." In 1874 the Popular Science Monthly took up the protest against the onward movenieat in "Educated to Death a Mother's Story." ' By way of contrast, the later of the two pamphlets contains a list of fiftyseven colleges which admit women, and concerning which matter has beeu printed, imd notes a book of three hundred, and ninety-four pages devoted to the progress in women's education in the British Empire, j , It is significant that tbe literature of recent years Is rich in books and articles on the relation of educated women to home-making. They are evidently making themselves felt there, from the sanitation of the house and the chemistry of foods to the fctudy of the baby's mind. Whatever criticisms may be made on women as scholars, none ca'n be made on those women who dedicate their scholarship to the service of the home, and scholarly women are j doing this more and more.- Youth's Companion. How to Spoil Children. Laugh at their faults ; encourage white lies; give them their own way; tfll them pretty untruths; give them what they cry for; shout at the top of your voice to them; never encourage their efforts to do better. Fly Into a passion with them several times a day; punish them if they break some trifle by accident; don't enter Into their games; when thöy ask for Information tell them to be quiet; let them think the street is the best place to play; never take any notice of their childish sorrows. Don't have any toys or playthings tossed around the house ; don't bother yourself about - whose bouse they go to; don't trouble inviting their companions to , your house ; always take part against their teachers; and try to forgef a much as possible that you were once young yourself. . mm The soft rose and strawberry aud rr.spberry shades in linen are to be much worn. Brocade Jackets, whether separate or part of the gown Itself, are Immensely fashionable. A dainty pair of slippers are of heavy white linen, with a daisy design embroidered on the toe. A very lovely little hat Is made of creamy roses and lace, with a quill made of green leaves at the left front So far, It would seem that everything Is to be flowered, embroidery .spotted, checked, plaided, blocked or striped. A tl'In gold gauze rlblwn, narrowly bordeved with old rose and sprinkled with little gold roses, Is delightful as a g'.iwn trimming. One of the attractive devices Of the hour, conspicuous In smart toilettes. Is tbe use In sleeves of fabrics which contrast with the bodice. "White and black effects are very much thought of at this moment Whlta gultlngs striped or plaided with black threaten to have an immense run. Linens and voiles these are the two leading fabrics for spring and summer costumes linens of all grades and rolles of silk, of wool and of cotton. Some kind of pretty lingerie waist must be worn with the corselet costumethat is, the princess dress reach-

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ing in one piece to the bust Or a sham garment, extending only to the bust, may le used. Another Parisian mode is to take tea In one's long gloves. These are such complicated parts of one's apparel nowadays that it is a nuisance to remove them 'until the toilet Is changed.

A thin silk or one that frays easily can be cut out better If laid between sheets of thin paper and the pattern cut through paper and material together. A collar lining of taffeta should be cut so that the front pert Is on the "straight" of the material and the curved k part of the collar will then come r n the bias. It is a good plan to bend steels or whalebones at the waistline when making a bodice before putting them Into the casings, as the bodice "will then fit closer to the figure. , . After stitching down a seam, . press with a hot iron and if no seam board is at hand it is useful to know that a rolling-pin wrapped In a clean cloth will answer the purpose equally well. In making a blouse too deep a round must not be cut for the neck at the EAELY STJ1QXEB FROCKS. outset. It Is better to try It oh first and then outline a semi-circle In front with a row of pins, cutting It evenly on a flat surface. , Always make the neck- of a blouse slightly smaller than the base of the collar band, and In tacking It Into position It is an excellent plan to cut a few notches In the blouse so as to avoid wrinkles when the collar Is finally Pitched on. ' Health and Beauty Illnta. A gins of hot lemonade before retiring will ' often prevent a cold. A very , few drops or camphor In a glass of water will often relieve a sick headache. Bathing the eyes several times a day In cold water makes them bright, and helps to keep them strpng. Bub the following on the hands after bathing them: Glycerin and rose water equal partä. Mix well by shaking.. Don't use cold water when giving tbe face ä cosmetic scrub. Warm water, followed by n , dash of cold water, Is better. . t ' Hot milk, heated to as high a temperature as it can be drunk, Is a most refreshing stimulant In cases of cold or over-fatigue. Pumice should never be used on the hand. A bit of lemon will answer Its purpose, without making the -fingers rough and calloused. A Swedish method of prducing sleep Is to wring out a handkerchief In IcyoM water and lay it across the eyes, when It Is said to act like magic. About Your 31017. ' Don't use your muff as a shopping bag. The furrier says a great many women do this and that Is why their furs soon look shabby. Muffs were made to hold a pair of hands and perhaps a purse and handkerchief. They were not made to hold bundles. If you want .your muff to keep nice you mustn't huddle a package up between It and 'your fur boa. This rubs the hair off of both. . Never throw the muff down when not using it. Hang Is up by Its cord or a loop and in such manner that It does not rest against anything. The greatest cjuo must be taken of furs, particularly of lynx, which is an extremely delicate fur. A Defense of the Xew Woman. Rev. John L. Scudder of the First Congregational Church of Jersey City, speaking of business women us wives, says he sympathizes ' with the Independent spirit of the bachelor maid who feels herself to be something more than a man trap. Under these circumstances he thinks we must expect fewer marriages in proportion to the population, but although tbe weddings will

be fewer he believes that those couples who do marry will be happier, "because they stand on the same footing,and mutual affinity will be the basis of marriage in place of mercenary motives." He believes the new woman's industrial training will make her a better wife, for she will know the value of a dollar and will sympathize with the daily toil of her husband Also she may be expected to apply business methods to domestic economy, and ' in the face of ill treatment she has the courage to separate from him and return to self-support

Fasay Mothers. Children are often worried because their mothers are too attentive, and continually reprove the small ones without reason. A child should be let alone, and be allowed to play or amuse Itself In its own way, without the constant direction of a nervous mother. A boy, for example, enjoys more a few simple toys and something which his own Ingenuity has worked out than the most elaborate plaything which lias been bought. In the same way, a little girl will lavish her affections on a misshapen doll, probably made at home, whlis the most artistic production of the toyshop will lie In state, to" be taken up on rare occasions. To Clean Gilt Frames. . Take a gill of good vinegar in a pint of cold water, a large soft, clean shaving brush, and a soft clean cloth. Remove all dust from the frame and dip the brush In the liquid. Squeeze it slightly so that it may not be too wet brush the gilding, doing a small piece at a time, lightly up and down, till it Is quite restored. s , w Eton Cloth Salt. , The new touches of beauty whicl distinguish this handsome - tailored gown-are fitting examples of the smart ness of spring modes. Dark gray of th shade known as London smoke was se t . lected, and it is trimmed In a lighter shade of the same color," panels of the pale gray being set Into the royal skirt and Eton. The former fits without fullness over the hips, but is gored to flare' at the bottom. After - the prevailing spring and summer models the front panel Is plaited and heavily stitched with tailor's silk. Extending down, the front is shaped effect The object of the Eton is to produce the unbroken line of the seml-prlncess modes, and Its trimmings are most effectively worked out with the light gray cloth, supplemented bf appliques of black silk and narrow soutache braid. Nearly all of the new tailored gowns are three4 piece suits, so, in accordance with the new Idea, this design has the most mannish little shirt waist Imaginable, made of heavy white linen, with laundered collar and enffs, and finished with a four-in-hand tie of bright green silk. . Chlt-aRTo'a Cirusa Widows. There are 1,400 "grass" widows in Chicago and they are drawing- annually ?G72,0O0 in alimony from their former busbands. The records for the county show that between 2,200 and I,C00 divorces are granted every year in the western . metropolis.

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BREAD - SUPERSTITIONS.

Peculiar One Still Prevail la Parts of Raral France. There are some curious superstitions about baking bread in the course of religious seasons which seem so easy to prove fallacious that one has difficulty in understanding why they are still believed. One would think that some aay a mistake would occur and the discovery be made that there was no force in them. Probably, owing to the constitution of the believers, the failure of the expected result would "be ascribed to some supernatural cause rather than tbe real one, and the belief would be continued. Most of these superstitions are found in France, the greatest bread eating country on the globe. For instance, in Upper Brittany bread baked on Good Frldav, it is declared becomes black. In Charante it is held that he who eats of bread baked on All Souls' day will become diseased. The flames will burst out of the oven in one's face if bread Is baked on the Feast of St Nicholas, say the good people of St Aube, so It is not done. In Burgundy th -people believe that if bread is baked In the course of Rogation Week 'all bread baked during the remainder of the year will turn mouldy. The, Inhabitants of the Black Mountains believe the same thing. - The Sicilians refuse to bake on Good Friday, because they fear that in some manner they will burn the Savior. The beliefs which other Europeans used to hare in early times demonstrate how Illogical .is all this superstition. These used to think that bread baked on Good Friday would not grow mouldy, and the hot cross bun was included in this belief. Some one has shrewdly suggested that the spice preserved them., A piece of bread baked on this holy day, was supposed to have miraculous powers if preserved. The house containing it would not catch fire. It was useful for preventing whooping cough, and if fed to cattle 111 of certain diseases would cure them. The natural, deduction from all this is that in one country bread baked on a certain day will work ill and that baked in another on the same day will work good, which means that bread baked on that day is about the same as bread baked on any other. . TRANSFORMING CLOTHES POST. How It Was Made Part of a DeantlJ - f ol Flower Garden. Long ago, when we only dreamed of a garden, we had set our hearts upon certain Ideals. Our garden was to have an arch, a column and a pergola, and we were able to construct something to call by each of these names, using mostly such material .as was at hand. The clothes posts being with us to stay, we tried to utilize them to advantage, says a writer in the Garden Magazine. ' We had done with . rigid formality, and to introduce a break the two posts nearer the house were moved further apart and out of line while the other two were brought nearer to each other. Each" was Incased In extra-heavy chickon wire, and provided at the top with a hook and cleat fastened by bolts going through the post At the base of the first post are three everbloomlng honeysuckles (lonlcera heckrottl). The first year the bulbs of this vine were a mass of little green bugs which neither liquid nor powder would kill. The following March the vine was sprayed with kerosene soap, which seemed to be a successful treatment as . there have been no insects since that first attack. ' ' The second post was placed five feet from a flower bed and an additional support set In the bed ;, both were then connected by an arch made of Iron such as would be used for wagon tires. The ends were fastened to the posts by bolts," and cross-pieces of light Iron, riveted about eighteen inches apart, to support chicken wire one foot wide. . The remaining, posts were made to form a small pergola, and connected by irons as before to posts In a paral lei bed. In this cas the iron strips are supplemented by a bar of angle' iron along the top, to prevent sagging under the weight of the wooden crosspleces. Japanese clematis (clematis paniculata) grows around all these posts, and I have found it best to plant at least two roots at the base of each, in February trimming one vine back, to the top of the post and cutting off the other at the ground level. In this way the taller plant starts, soon covers the top, and the lower plant clothes the post where the stalks of the other are' comparatively bare. HIS RECOVERY WAS SPEEDY. British Duke Given 'a Pointer on Naval Etlanette. On one of the visits of the American fleet to English waters Admiral Erben, now retired, was In command, with Capt Alfred T. Mahan, the writer on naval affairs, as his. flag captain, says the New York Tribune. One morning Capt Mahan came to his admiral with an invitation to dine with a duke, which he had received. "I can't accept this," said Capt Muhan, "as they forgot to Invite you." "I should say you couldn't growled the admiral. "I'll answer for you." Whereupon the admiral wrote: "Admiral Erben, United States Navy, regrets that Capt' Mahan, his flag captain, cannot accept the invitation of the duke of Blank. Capt Mahan is on the sick list" ' An hour or so later a messenger from tbe duke returned with Invitations for the admiral and the captain. Whereupon, the captain wrote again: "Admiral Erben accepts with pleasure the invitation for Capt Mahan and himself. ' He wishes also to advise the duke of Blank that he has taken Capt Mahan off the sick list" , . Tonle Effect of Music Good music is a powerful tonic to many people, especially those suffering from melancholia. It lifts them out of their solemn moods, dispels gloom and despondency, kills discouraged feelings and gives new hope, new life and new vigor. It seems to put a great many people Into proper tune. It gives them tbe keynote of truth and beauty, strikes the chords of harmony, dispels discord from the life, scatters clouds and brings sunshine. All good mu:jlc 1 a character builder, because Its constant suggestion of harmony, order and beauty puts the mind into a normal attitude. Music clenrs the cobwebs out of many minds so that they can think better, act better and live better. . Troubles seem greater after night and perhaps it is for thls reason that troubles are greater to the old than to the young: Age is the twilight of life when commonplace things assume fantastic shapes. If you bve time to boast about being worked to death, you hare not much to da,

Never before this year of grace 1903 has tyranny oppressed freedom without some, poet to sing the wrongs of tha oppressed. Milton wrote of the AIMgenses, Byron sang of the Greek struggle, our Massachusetts poets of the5 negro's wrongs. But here and now is a people the Russians scourged with whips for a century and with scorpions for a year, ü pictur?squi rabble fighting for their rights and the rights of mankind against a picturesqua despotism and not a line of verse yvs give them, unless it is a sonnet or two from Alfred Austin's brad accl butter muse. . There has been no poetry on the Russian crisis because thera have been no poets. In the Anglo-Saxon world is the race of poets extinct? James Barnes, author of tbe detective novel, "Outside the Law," tells cf a discussion as to the character of authors which he overheard on a ferry boat. Ills Interest was particularly aroused as it was his own latest book which two youngsters were discussii "Soy," said one of them, "does an author dare do all he writes?" "Sure. How would he write it?" "Well, in dls 'Outside de Law a feller goes awful fa-t In an automobile." "De author done that . for sure. Dey's all rich "Well, another man forges bin ."'Dat's a mistake in de book." "Bet how about de man what robs a bank? "De man wot had de nolve to writa dat book," said his interlocutor firmly, "would have nolve eiough to rob a bank any day." The publication of Miss Ellen Glasgow's new novel, "The Wheel of Life, has been a conspicuous literary event; not only on account of the distinguished reputation of the author, but because it records the full ripening cf her art and is a new" revelation of ber unusual powers. It Is a profound trd dramatic shvy of life in New Yorfs City. The hero is a man of striklcs individuality ; the heroine is a poet cf rare, talent Between them Is evolved a drama of vital and moving Interest; and the lay characters and forces thit contribute to its unfolding make it tt piece of literature of large proportion The brilliant frivolity of society is tct forth and .the character of a good na is made attractive. "The Wheel cZ Life" shows a largeness of vision as3 a depth of understanding that will rzz.lt it with the genuine achievements of American fiction. It is by far Zlica Glasgow's most mature and ImprcriTa work. - , . Half a dozen clever girls In Ner York are earning substantial Inccc3 as "book digesters." Each of them ha3 for her clientele women too busy wIUi social engagements to find time for reading, yet who wish to keep abreast of current literature. The "digester" carefully follows noteworthy publications in fiction, art, sci ence, history cr religion. Once or twice a week sha calls at the house of a "client" to review the contents of the books reaöL She, is careful to memorize any epigram or witty saying that ber client might Introduce effectively in conversation1 "It is remarkable how little leisure 150 me women have," said a Va?sar graduate who ' has adopted the new calling. "They can seldom give me & half hour all to myself. I am asked to call at the same hour as ihe halr-dress-er," the. manicure or the chiropodist and. In specially gay seasons all three of these attendants may be at work upon her while I sit at a little distance and post her upon current books." WOOD ALCOHOL. A Deadly Spirit ExtenlTCly L'ed la i the World Commerce. Alcohol in its severest forms Is a pronounced poison. The wood alcohol of commerce Is the deadliest of these spirits, and yet it has been coming Intosuch general use as a substitute for the highly taxed grain spirits that movements have been stMted to Iuluc the revenue department of the United States to authorize the'manufacture cf a denaturalized grain alcohol free of any tax whatever. Except for the revenue tax .on the grain alcohol. It couhl compete with the horribly polsonoua wood spirits. ; , Potatoes will furnish rlcohol In high proportionate quantities, and with.tfcs product rendered unfit Tor driskirj purposes as is done In Germany tha uses of the spirits In the arts exclusively should not subject It to the enormous tax placed upon the grain alcohoL s . Alcohol Is the base of almost countless commodities in use in almost every field of endeavor. It holds a' first plica as a preservative. It is an almost universal solvent for drugs' and chemlcsl substances. Germany, for exampia; uses, 25,000,000 gallons of atohol every year for commercial purposes. an3 these uses are multiplying rapidly. Ether," celluloid, white lead, phot graptlc papers and plates, collodion, perfumes of all kinds, transparent soaps, fulminates and smokeless powders, varnishes, inks and even the manufacture of an artificial 6llk are dependent upon alcohol, and In many of these combinations the substitution of the wood alcohol for the grain product may be productive of appalling calamity to the unwitting workers In these substances. Japanese Coiffure. In Japan a girl at tbe age of 9 wears her hair tied In a red scarf hunä" around the back of her head; the forehead is left bare, with the exception of a couple of locks, one on each side. When she is of marriageable rge she combs ber tfalr forward and makes It up Into the shape of a fan or a butterfly, and at the same time decorates It with silver cord andJballs of varied colors. This means everything and la fully understood by the young men of Japan. A widow who wishes for a second husband puts a tortoise-shell pin horizontally at the back of her head and twists her hair round It whlleu inconsolable widow cuts her hair short and goes in for no adornments of any ort These last are rare. By tbese simple menus much confusion Is avoided. A glance around the ball-room suffices to tell the age und status of every woman in the place. The Kate Qneatlon. Tirst Debater These railroads are down on us common ieople. Why they'll carry a ton of coal as cheap 'as they'll carry a man. Second Debater Your argument Ooh't interest me. I never rode in a coal car nor took a trip In a car where coal was carried in cushion seats. Indianapolis Star. : When you are all done but finis hir, you are Just half dona.